Saga of Cell Phone Accident...
Well, on our way from Nevada to Oregon we recently got into an accident. A woman driving a borrowed car while on a cell phone rammed into my Ram’s drivers side alloy dually, then sheared off the drive...
Forum Discussion
GeoBoy wrote:
We don’t need anymore cell phone laws because most cell phone users don’t obey them any way. Just have the wireless companies shut off their use off while moving.
CVS Pharmacy stopped selling cigarettes, because it was the RIGHT thing to do. It cost them over a billion dollars in revenue BUT it was the RIGHT thing to do for their customers.
Exactly, this is why a defeat device of sorts that disables ‘hand held’ phone operation is the answer...Yes, there’ll always be those who are unwilling to defer to common safety sense (and the law), unconsciously willing to impose extreme risk onto others to advantage their own personal instant convenience, while mostly oblivious to the possibility of any adverse consequences...This is merely an age old part of the human condition which admittedly we all partake in...
Complacency, and resistance to change (and often to rational consensus forming) is our predictable ‘default condition’ - that is, so long as it’s ‘someone else’s’ Ox who’s getting gored...SOP for naysayers who (not unlike Mr. Magoo...) perceive some form of devine inoculation from deadly mishaps...
Finding a workable solution is not Rocket Science - it only requires a bit of inspiration, tech innovation, and the all important ‘will’ to do so...In a perfect world, a solution would be pursued to completion without the heavy hand of an overbearing Gov’t...JMHO
